Myself and the teacher devised a plan that the virtual link up wouldn’t work, then i would knock the classroom door and enter! The look on the children’s faces was priceless!
From my point of view a ‘real’ time visit to the classroom affords the opportunity to connect to the children and teacher in a different way and explore the work created in more depth as it is located around the school.
Through a more expressive approach to drawing we aimed to capture motion in our chosen forms of moving, which included, walking, cycling, running to name but a few. After some physical exercise in the classroom and studio, we began to trace/interpret movement with our crayons.
In this session we translated a journey from the school taking the directions North, South, East and West. Using a large roll of paper and working in groups drawings were created mapping various distances from the school.
From studio to classroom all in time!
Ways of Seeing – a classic 1972 book and television series by the recently deceased John Berger (Jan 2017) provided a background to our session today. In discussion with the children we considered how we see and observe and how different we see/observe when our sight is channeled or focused.
In my studio and in the classroom we created tubes (emblazoned with symbols that reflect ourselves) then created 5 drawings within circles from various viewpoints.
Experimental drawing using stencil and light
Artist = Painting, good ideas, clay, good imagination, sketch, draw, look at things, fabric, design, collaging, photography, scrap materials, canvas, colours, sections, detail, sculpture…..
^ some responses to the term ‘Artist’ from the children
Slight deviation from ‘Distance’ today! The children have dressed as ‘Superheroes’!
Time for narratives, group working, decision making, drawing and storytelling!
Artist story:
Bad superhero kidnaps the cooks – so no lunch!
Good superhero needs to find the cooks, they are hidden away, eventually they are found, however, there is now only 5 minutes to lunch!
Quick, the good superhero decides to ‘rewind’ time – the cooks now have time to prepare lunch, all has been saved!
